IBM Plex Mono totally slaps. Look at those braces!
The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
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Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're not wrong, but part of the core problem with LLMs is that they write every blog post and README like they're writing the opening titles for Blade Runner.
Also the problem with LinkedIn, local news etc. Contemporary American culture is addicted to dramatic writing and tries to leverage its tropes to create emotional engagement on everything .
You hit the nail on the smoking gun.
Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
#63Well, besides the language and the typeface, the other element of this sequence at the beginning of Blade Runner that makes it so special is the accompanying score by Vangelis, and the sound effects that start with twinkling computer notes and gradually build in volume to explosions and the whoosh of futuristic vehicles. It effectively immerses viewers into this incredible world and story.
That soundtrack is absolutely perfect.
Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
#64Well, besides the language and the typeface, the other element of this sequence at the beginning of Blade Runner that makes it so special is the accompanying score by Vangelis, and the sound effects that start with twinkling computer notes and gradually build in volume to explosions and the whoosh of futuristic vehicles. It effectively immerses viewers into this incredible world and story.
It was only a few months back that I found out that Vangelis couldn't read or write music notation. He would just improv play and record on a tape, recording additional parts and mixing as needed. If he needed to have other musicians involved, then he would hire someone to listen back and write down the notation. Considering he recorded something like 35 albums, he was doing something right.
Vangelis is a bit funny and odd! Have a listen of Jon Anderson's (formerly of Yes) account of meeting and collaborating with Vangelis.
Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
#65> Here are the six that have made my cut [...] The question is: how do they make you feel? Feel, schmeel, I'd have vetoed Berkeley Mono right away for the very practical offense of making 0 resemble O. Even in my pre-coding youth, I already had an inordinate fondness for the disambiguations of OCR-A [0]... > HARRISON FORD Hold up... Why is that one twisted!? Is it an optical illusion? Am I going nuts? Nope. I opened…
Whoa, great catch! I can't unsee it.
Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
#66With the em dashes and the conclusion "This was not called execution. It was called retirement." I expect a lot of people would believe today that these title cards were written by an LLM.
Will just been seen as one of those things that just happen be to accurate to the future by mere chance. The other was in Terminator 2 with how agreeable LLM's will be regarding new information. Terminator/T-800 tests his foster mother's identity with a phone call. Terminator impersonating John - "Hey Janelle, what's wrong with Wolfie?" (using a fake name instead of the dog's real name, Max). T-1000 "Wolfie's fine,"…
If T-1000 was an LLM:
"What's wrong with Wolfie?"
"Wolfie's fine."
"Actually his name's Max."
"You're absolutely right. It's not Wolfie -- it's Max."
"Actually we don't have a dog."
"I apologize. I shouldn't have assumed you have a dog. I will be more careful in the future. Do you want me to list common pets in American households?"
Terminator hangs up and tells John "You need a better model."
Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
#67> Here are the six that have made my cut [...] The question is: how do they make you feel? Feel, schmeel, I'd have vetoed Berkeley Mono right away for the very practical offense of making 0 resemble O. Even in my pre-coding youth, I already had an inordinate fondness for the disambiguations of OCR-A [0]... > HARRISON FORD Hold up... Why is that one twisted!? Is it an optical illusion? Am I going nuts? Nope. I opened…
Whoa, great catch! I can't unsee it.
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Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Asterisk the director's cut is amazing.
Good luck even finding the non-directors cut. I liked the film noir voice-over.
> I liked the film noir voice-over.
I remember the voice over the first time I saw the movie, possibly in a cinema. I liked it, and was surprised with the general level of dislike it has received. The film was meant to be a mid-20th-century film-noir detective drama.
Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
#69> Here are the six that have made my cut [...] The question is: how do they make you feel? Feel, schmeel, I'd have vetoed Berkeley Mono right away for the very practical offense of making 0 resemble O. Even in my pre-coding youth, I already had an inordinate fondness for the disambiguations of OCR-A [0]... > HARRISON FORD Hold up... Why is that one twisted!? Is it an optical illusion? Am I going nuts? Nope. I opened…
I mean back in the day, those kinds of titles involved film editing, not video editing. As in, physically filming title cards with a camera (and then maybe optically compositing them on top of other elements). It's easy to see how things could get slightly misaligned.
Looks like the misalignment is less than 1 degree. It's the kind of thing that stands out very noticeably in an image on a web page, when there are lots of perfectly horizontal edges to compare it against (e.g. the edge of the viewport). But I think it would be much harder to notice if projected onto a movie screen in a dark theater.
Re: The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're not wrong, but part of the core problem with LLMs is that they write every blog post and README like they're writing the opening titles for Blade Runner.
Also the problem with LinkedIn, local news etc. Contemporary American culture is addicted to dramatic writing and tries to leverage its tropes to create emotional engagement on everything .
Exactly. That's not just a load-bearing truth — it's a testament to the power of the contemporary zeitgeist!